For those hoping to cure death, and they are legion, a 2016 experiment at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego has become liminal — the moment that changed everything. The experiment ...

Beyond headlines and promises of eternal youth, advances in transplants, epigenetic clocks, and cellular reprogramming are redefining aging to help people live longer — and, above all, healthier. Some ...

A team led by researchers has discovered that a group of cells located in the skin and other areas of the body, called neural crest stem cells, are the source of reprogrammed neurons found by other ...

The first clinical attempt to make human beings biologically younger is no longer a thought experiment. A small gene therapy trial, cleared quietly by regulators in the United States, is now moving ...

A mature cell of one type can be turned into a mature cell of another type without the cell having to pass through an earlier stage of development. This is called direct reprogramming, a reliable but ...